Anecdotal accounts suggest mail theft is on the rise in parts of the country. Postal inspectors don’t have a reliable internal system to track the crime.

• As far as the number of mail theft arrests declining, the number of cases initiated stays more constant (1,278 in 2019 and 1,124 in 2022).

Federal prosecutors announced developments in two cases involving mail theft Thursday, the latest series of charges across the country as the U.S. Postal Service grapples with securing deliveries ...

PPOs targeted zip codes where mail theft was prevalent. The idea was to prevent crime in the first place, Albergo says, rather than catch people, investigate them, and imprison them. Read More ...

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service reported roughly 300,000 complaints about mail theft in 2021, more than double the prior year's total. In some cases, ...

Mail theft is on the rise, and a CBS News investigation has found the U.S. Postal Service is not consistently taking steps to secure millions of universal "arrow keys" that open bulk mailboxes.

Those who believe they may have been a victim of mail theft should contact the Postal Inspection Service at 877-876-2455. That phone number may also be used if anyone has information about recent ...

Mail theft is surging, the U.S. Postal Service reports, and federal regulators have warned banks and other financial institutions of rising check fraud. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Overall, mail theft cases in the area have risen from 383 in 2021 to 412 last year and 285 in the first six months of this year. Postal inspector David Gealey says the thefts in western ...

Mail theft has been an ongoing issue in her Arden Arcade condominium community, Woodside Homeowners Association, over the past few years, she said.

Since the pandemic, mail theft has boomed. There was an 87% increase in reports of high-volume theft from mailboxes between 2019 and 2022, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. A report ...